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Collisions between trains and pedestrians

Pedestrian Hit and Run over by Union Pacific Freight Train near Iowa/Nebraska State Line

Posted Tue, 05/21/2013 - 09:16

(Harrison County, Iowa – May 20, 2013)

An as-yet unidentified, by gender, age, name or residence, pedestrian was struck and killed by an eastbound Union Pacific freight train that had just crossed the Missouri River bridge on its way from California to Chicago in the Iowa border county of Harrison County at about 2:00 P.M. early Monday afternoon.

Alabama Pedestrian Struck and Killed by CSX Freight Train

Posted Sat, 05/11/2013 - 12:05

(Cullman, Alabama – April 26, 2013)

The tragic death of a 74-year-old Cullman, AL man, who lived about two miles from CSX railroad tracks in Cullman County, AL, and was killed instantly Friday morning as he attempted to avoid an oncoming CSX freight train on the tracks that “run through the heart of the city and county” according to the local newspaper, The Cullman Times, has been ruled an accident.

Teen Dies When Overtaken by UP Train

Posted Mon, 04/08/2013 - 15:16